sam rayburn, lyndon johnson, and dwight eisenhower were political partisans from two different parties. but they always put country first and party second. in november, 1961, 10 months after the end of eisenhower's presidency, sam rayburn died at his home in texas. among the mourners at mr. sam's funeral at the little baptist church in bonham was dwight david he'sen hour, sho en eisenn this famous photograph with lyndon johnson. serving as interviewer and moderator for our program tonight is my good friend mark updegrove. mark needs to introduction to this audience, but i to want to say something about his work that is particularly relevant to this program. mark, who is one of the leading presidential historians in this country is the author of the book "second acts, presidential lies and legacies after the white house." which, as the title implies, examines the post-presidential experiences of all the presidents who served after franklin roosevelt, concluding with bill clinton. one of my favorite chapters in that book is the one that mark wrote about the years that dwight eisenhower s

david eisenhower is the grandson of president dwight eisenhower. his father, john eisenhower, is a prominent military historian. david is the author of "the new york times'" best sell ter, eisenhower at war which was a finalist for the pulitzer prize in 1986. he currently serves as the director of the institute for public service at the annenberg public policy center at the university of pennsylvania. he's a senior research fellow at the annenberg school for communication. david eisenhower has served on numerous not-for-profit boards and committees including the advisory committee on presidential libraries. a graduate of am hursal college, david eisenhower earned his law degree from the george washington university law school in 1976. our other special guest is david eisenhower's co-author, julie nixon eisenhower who just happens to be david eisenhower's wife. she's also the second daughter of president richard nixon. julie is also a best-selling author, editor and a recognized public speaker on such subjects as the presidency, women in politics and

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inside the museum, the life of dwight eisenhower, boy and man, is depicted in a series of murals. infancy that life had the flavor of grassroots america about him. eisenhower was born in 1890 in dennison, texas of parents whose families migrated to pennsylvania from europe and then to the american midwest. young eisenhower's parents had lived in abilene before his birth and it was to abilene, once the wild town, now a pleasant village of the plains that they returned when he was an infant. and it was here that he grew to maturity through a childhood that was ak tifshctiactive, eag happy. an experience shared with devoted parent and spirited brothers. a childhood as rich in the important things of life that ever graced the development of any man. it was an active boyhood in which sports played an important part. he excelled at baseball, both in school and on a vacant lot next to his home. but football was his first love. and his high school coach called him the most outstanding tackle in the valley. ♪ the active life was important, but the greatest single staple of the eisenhower f

the correlated confuses dwight eisenhower a little bit. then he understands that this will work out. america is a land of ingenuity. we require people to work hard to get there. so we are led by very exceptional people. we rely on presidents to find solutions to great dilemmas that america has faced. >> you wrote about a conversation that you had with your grandma. about your grandfather. you asked if she ever really knew him. she reprice, "i'm not sure anyone ever did requests. what is at the root of that comment? >> my father noted this about franklin roosevelt. it was an admiring comment he made. here we are at the lyndon johnson library. this is, by the way, julie is here, a former student. i send students to the johnson library every semester. i know the institution. i know what a great one it is. and the great story told here. presidents are sort of mysterious in a lot of ways, and this is more obvious in certain libraries than it might be in others. what my father said with admiration is franklin roosevelt was completely unscrutable

in other words, we have dwight eisenhower who is president and then you have richard nixon who is going to be president and for these two people who both have, you know, ideas and agendas and for them to get along as well as they did, and i think it developed into a warm friendship, but i think that the, just the energy and the fact that my father represented something different from eisenhower, as well. he represented a newer generation. he represented a specific outlook and eisenhower -- >> eisenhower had his own clash with mcarthur. same thing. you can draw an analogy. when you see pictures of douglas mcarthur and dwight eisenhower bent over a desk going over some document relating to the filipino first division in 1938, you were looking at the man who commanded u.s. forces in the pacific and the man who commanded u.s. forces in europe. right there. this is a colonel or a major and a general who is, in effect, retired. you had no idea that these people are the the figures that they are. and about then mcarthur began to get an idea working with eisenhower that he wasn't going to get a

. >> history is full of tensions between dwight eisenhower and richard nixon. you were there and saw the relationship up close. how would you characterize the relationship between the two of them? >> the answer is it's amazing they got along as well as you did. because you're taking two presidential personalities bumping along together. in other words, we have dwight eisenhower who is president and then richard nixon who is going to be president and for these two people who both have ideas and agendas and for them to get along as well as they did i think it developed into a warm friendship. the fact that my father represented something different from eisenhower as well. he represented a newer generation. he represented a pacific outlook. >> eisenhower had his own clash with mcarthur. same thing. and you can draw an analogy. when you see pictures of douglas macarthur and dwight eisenhower bent over a desk going over some document relating to the first division in 1938, you are looking at the man who commanded u.s. forces in the pacific and the man who commanded

dwight d. eisenhower. at the end of 1950 he answered his country's call once more and once more he was on european soil to assume supreme command of the land, the sea, and the air forces of a grand, defensive alliance. against the new threat rising from the soviets who had once been his nation's ally he had to create the will to defend itself so that freedom so dearly bought would not be lost. for more than a year he labored diligently at his task of coalition. when he turned over the reins of command to general matthew ridgeway the structure of military unity among free nations on which rested the hope for continued peace was established. once again with the accomplishment of substantial victory behind him, this might well have been the end of his public career and in a sense it was. the closing chapter in the story of eisenhower the soldier. history is recording today the story of eisenhower the statesman. the stories may be separate but soldier and statesman they are the same man, dwight d. eisenhower,

one reason that dwight eisenhower and lyndon johnson and richard nixon and john kennedy and dwight eisenhower and all of these people were able to collaborate in a way is because you had an undisputed majority party in the 1950s and 1960s. undisputed majority party and, therefore, there's an incentive for the minority party to find common ground and the majority was so unwielding that the leader of the majority party had to reach out in passing the civil rights act of 1964, i think he got three-quarters. the republican house supported the bill divided the democratic caucus 50/50. because of the unwieldy size of the national majority. i think the incentives right now in our national politics, we're going through a phase here where the incentives are not to reach across the aisle, but mobilize your own people. bring your own people to the polls. we don't have an answer for that except that i think the american people over the last number of elections have really not rendered a clear-cut decision in the way so many of our elections were decided back then. if you look at eisenhower in '52. this w

dwight eisenhower, the man from central kansas who makes a historic and eternal record, not in central kansas, but in london and in paris, symbolic of this great journey of americans every president represents something different, and each president as they leave office continue in some sense to be president. i think that's why the story plays on. >> julie, president eisenhower goes back to get his title not as president eisenhower but as general eisenhower. why was that? >> he made it be known immediately that he would take his title general of the army and that's because -- although the presidency was a great honor, the highest honor that america can bestow on an individual and he honored the presidency, the defining time of his life, as dave said earlier, was world war ii. the bond that i think he felt with the men that he led. so when you would go to the eisenhower farm and look out over those beautiful green rolling hills, there on the putting green was a little five-star flag. he took -- his stationery had five stars in gold instead of the presidential seal which he could have do

. >>> two granddaughters of dwight d. eisenhower voiced their opposition this week to the proposed design of a memorial honoring the 44th president. they appeared before a subcommittee hearing held to consider the views of both supporters and opponents of the design created by architect frank gehry and his collaborator theodore wilson. this hearing is 90 minutes. >> the subcommittee of national parks, forests and public lands is meeting on the proposed eisenhower memorial. under the rules, the opening remarks are limited to the chairman and ranking committee. i ask you now to consider any other members opening comments and is submitted by the clerk by close of business today. hear nothing objections, so ordered. i want to thank everyone who has grid to testify today. although today's witnesses will express differing opinions on the proposed design, i know that everyone, critics and advocates alike want a memorial, a monument that truly honors president eisenhower and help future americans understand and appreciate his role in americ

gsa is honored to play a role in helping the eisenhower commission to create a memorial to president dwight d. eisenhower. his long career of noble service to our country is and should be a sense of inspiration to the american people. the commission was tasked with creating an appropriate permanent memorial to perpetrator wait his memory and his contributions to the united states. gsa has assisted the commission with issues related to the acquisition of office space, human resource support, financial and accounting services, legal and contracting support, and our role expanded as the commission's vision became clear. given our experience and expertise, the commission asked gsa to help select both a design firm and a construction contractor for the memorial. at the request of the commission, we used our proven design excellence process to select the design firm. this competitive and streamlined process seeks to select the most qualified designers to support federal design commissions. we seek to contract with the nation's most talented architects, landscape architects, and engineers to desig

i just finished a book on dwight eisenhower by a man named gene edward smith. it covers his life. and what i come away with is a much higher regard for president eisenhower than the conventional wisdom in d.c. from time to time. they'll list presidents and the historians will rank order them in terms of who was the best and so forth. i would have to say they bear almost no resemblance at all to my experience in terms of how i look on those individuals but the chief of staff is very different than the vice president. it's focused on what the president needs done. he needs someone around from early in the morning to late at night. and who can speak to the authority of the president. never abuse it. noefr mistake his own position as chief of staff for what the president is doing. you only have one president. he's the guy who runs for office. you're totally expendable as chief of staff. and it's very important that you function, i think in a way that emphasizes the staff part of the title. we have from time to time had chiefs of staff that didn't do that. they spent a lot of time in fr

dwight eisenhower was only in the 60 campaign, but ike was no fan of jfk. kennedy won, eisenhower was so concerned that the young president was in over his head, they melt on mul multiple-i have needed you for a long time, but i needed you more than ever now. eisenhower replied any time you need me, mr. president, aisle be there. lbj showed nixon where he

i just finished a book on dwight eisenhower by a man named gene edward smith. it's a new biography called "eisenhower in war and peace." it covers his life, and what i come away with from that is a much higher regard for president eisenhower than sort of the conventional wisdom in the academic community. you may see from time to time, they will list presidents and the historians will rank order them in terms of who was the best and so forth. i would have to say those rankings bear almost no resemblance at all to my experience in terms of how i look on those individuals, but the chief of staff's job, it's very different from being the vice president. it's focused very much on what the president needs to have done. he needs someone around him to be there from very early in the morning and late at night to do what needs to be done, speak with authority to the president, never abuse it and never mistake his own position as chief of staff for what the president's doing. you only have one president. he's the guy who runs for office. he puts your name on the ballot. yo

if dwight eisenhower let the country know in 1954 what he really thought of brown v. topeka and that the troubles in the country, we would be fighting right now. he did not oppose the decision and any railway and now is a very common to report an american decision. >> is, two days after the supreme court ruling in brown was the court has spoken and i will obey. and those are not the words. but the other worries in the military life understand separation of powers. >> i've always thought it was great. >> you think race is a great character test and the heroes of that century. and the one thing when people ask me, how do you support this guy who did so many awful things and good things, how do come down to whether he's a good guy or bad guy, but after he accurately opposed and was fantastically famous could have commanded highest piece on wall street and chose to go to detroit at the height of the ku klux klan popularity in the 1920s and defend the sweet family, which was an african-american family that had been trapped inside a home buy a white mob fired into the mob a

it is very hard to protect how dwight eisenhower might have -- to predict how dwight eisenhower white have dealt with the kind of thing we had to deal with, or fdr, who obviously had not only world war ii but also the depression to cope with. we were fortunate during some of our times of great crisis to have individuals who could step up and do what needed to be done. but it is interesting. i just finished a book on dwight eisenhower, a new biography called "eisenhower: war and peace." it covers his life. what i come away with is a much higher regard for president eisenhower then the sort of conventional wisdom that the academic community may see. from time to time, they will list presidents and the historians will rank them in terms of who was the best and so forth. i would have to say that those rankings, there is almost no resemblance at all to my experience in terms of how i look at those individuals. the chief of staff's job, it is very different from being vice president. it is focused very much on what the president needs to have done. he needs to have somebody around him who i

gary's plan for the pro posed memorial to dwight eisenhower. for me, ike is still a living memory. his role as supreme commander of the allied forces, which freed europe from a great evil, and his two terms of president, of the united states, are events through which i lived. i hate to say this, mr. chairman, but i was actually walking and not crawing at that time. but what about our rising generations? who lack this firsthand historical memory, what will they know? if anything, about this great american. to teach them not only about ike, and his deeds, but to give them a sense of his greatness. and the debt we owe him, is the tass tick of a task of any monument. this is summarized in the 1999 law passed by congress ordering that, quote, an appropriate memorial to dwight d. eisenhower to perpetuate his memory and contributions to the united states. unquote. such a monument should therefore memorialize and educate. in the execution of these tasks, the gary proposal not only fails, but fails utterly. i say this for many reasons. the unifying narrative, story if you will is absent in

dwight eisenhower was only in the 60 campaign, but ike was no fan of jfk. kennedy won, eisenhower was so concerned that the young president was in over his head, they melt on mul multiple-i have needed you for a long time, but i needed you more than ever now. eisenhower replied any time you need me, mr. president, aisle be there. lbj showed nixon where he kept the tape recorders, something i'm sure nixon later regretted. when clinton met with george w. bush at the end of 2000, bush asked for advice on how to give a good speech. jimmy carter, famously seen as an outsider, even in the innermost circle, look at the gap there, in his latest book, "white house diary" he complained about being kempt at arm's length. i kept both ford and nixon sthor rowley informed and after i left the white house i rarely had such briefings, when i told reagan that i planned to inform the media that never et he -- all he gave me were a few items of information that had already been published in the news media. but the bontds of a fraternity have a way of overcoming personal and p

i just finished a book on dwight eisenhower, a new biography called "eisenhower: war and peace." it covers his life. what i come away with is a much higher regard for president eisenhower then the sort of conventional wisdom that the academic community may see. from time to time, they will list presidents and the historians will rank them in terms of who was the best and so forth. i would have to say that those rankings, there is almost no resemblance at all to my experience in terms of how i look at those individuals. the chief of staff's job, it is very different from being vice president. it is focused very much on what the president needs to have done. he needs to have somebody around him who is going to be there from early in the morning until late at night and do whatever he needs to have done and you can speak with the authority of the president, never to use it, never mistake his own position as chief of staff for what the president is doing. you only have one president. he is the guy that runs for office and put his name on the ballot. you're totally expendable as chief

york times atlanta constitution and he has most recently published this splendid biography on dwight eisenhower called eisenhower:the white house years. to jim's left we have john farrell who goes by jack. jack farrell began his career in journalism writing for such newspapers as the denver post and the boston globe. for the last three decades washington has been his beak and he cover all three branches of the federal government which has included his covering every presidential election since 1980. he is a senior writer for the center for public integrity which is a nonprofit, non-partisan investigative news organization. in 2001 he published a real page turner. to the o'neal and the democratic century. his writing has received a slew of prizes including last night as you may know when jack receive a los angeles time book price for biography for clarence darrow. [applause] here are our panelists and off we go. before we get into the theme, who knows if we will stick to this scene or not? i have been looking for threads. having a devil of a time. i thought if each of you might begin we will sta

(laughter) >> jon: my fourth was the ghost of dwight eisenhower. my fifth was the character of ron swanson on nbc's parks & recreation. my sixth was parliament funk delic george clinton. i really don't like mitt romney. so how are they going to make this pivot. sarah palin was not convinced that mitt romney is conservative enough. she told people to vote for newt gingrich, for god's sakes. is she convinced now, it's only been two months. >> i'm convinced. >> jon: okay, i guess she is convinced now. that is what i like about palin, open minded. so what convinced her? >> i am convinced that governor romney, will know to surround himself with those who inherently know to go right to err on the side of smaller, smarter government. and that gives me a lot of comfort. >> jon: basically she's saying don't trust romney. but i trust everyone he'll hire. yeah, that's what i-- it's like how vegans sell you on t, fu, i know it tastes like [bleep], just put enough rice and soy sauce you barely even know you are eating curdled soybean, it will be fine. (laughter

. >> so frank, you have described this project as an emotional portrait of dwight eisenhower, using the power of architecture, landscape and visual art to tell this life story and to represent his strength and values. and at the same time, paying attention with the balance between respectful and boring. so talk about the boring piece. [ laughter ] >> well, it's hard to comment on that. but i think expressing the man is not boring, and if we do it right, it will resonate and be strong. >> resonate is a good word. the history books have recorded him in a certain way, but this is something i think that we can reflect on in multiple ways. >> i think that there are people that think this is too big a space for eisenhower. he wasn't as important as that space. it's why does he have a space that's bigger than somebody else? he doesn't. he's just going to have a little plank with a little boy. this is just an image to contexturalize and modify the location so that it can accept that little modest piece and not get lost in the hubbub of the city. i think it's going to be very modest. >> you know

dwight eisenhower told his troops poised near the benches of normandy they were about to embark upon a great crusade. the eyes of the world are upon you. hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere. the company was brave allies and brothers in arms on the front. they will bring about the destruction of german war machine. the elimination of the nazi tyranny over the oppressed people of europe and security for ourselves in a free world. ronald reagan called them the men who took the cliffs. the champions who helped free a continent. the heroes who helped end war. those men are now our heroes forever a part of the greatness of america. when we gather sins for thanksgiving let us be grateful for the blessings of america and the sacrifices of those who built it and let it to us. my father was doing his part fighting the nazis working as a civil servant in western nevada. when i was 11 years old, his death came after a long and painful battle with lung disease. and hazardous chemicals and toxic fumes. even in this end my dad struggled for breath, he never regretted serving his c

and dwight eisenhower fought with them. so some time in between they must have become our friends. now, what vic at age of 6 understood is it is a very deep point. if kids can, can learn about baseball players and trade baseball cards and learn statistics and pokemon, they can learn, you all can learn, the presidents, if you know each of the presidents, there are less than 50 of them, and their order, and -- and one page, a wikipedia like page about each president, the basingbasics, myd at your disposal, just with that the spine of american history. and to some extent, the spine of modern world history. just at your disposal. and so, learn your presidents. if you don't know them. learn, one page about them. our conversation today has really been all about presidents. and you need to know them too. if you can't tell the difference between a green piece of paper with george washington on it and a green piece of paper with abe lincoln or grant, you are going to get short changed. okay. so -- we have already heard a couple of meditations, at least, about george washington that wonderfu

tonight the life of president dwight eisenhower. you'll hear from the architect of the memorial honoring the nation's 34th president, and from eisenhower's granddaughter. then an archival film about general eisenhower, made by the u.s. army. >> when we're warned in the next 12 to 18 months america will suffer a catastrophic cyberattack, they don't choose those words indiscriminately. we're already four or five months into that warning period, it tells me we have to move rapidly, but not in a way that either violates privacy or the basic tenets of privacy, and that encourages quick reaction, not sort of regulatory environment. >> tonight the chairman of the house subcommittee on communications and technology. congressman greg walden on cybersecurity and privacy at 8:00 eastern on the communicators on c-span 2. >>> the u.s. house passed its 2013 budget last week, written by republicans and passed without a democratic vote. the republican plan for international spending is a 7% cut in current funding, and would consolidate usaid's devel

and put annual domestic spending on a path to become the smallest share of the economy since dwight eisenhower true engine of job creation in this country is the private sector, not washington, which is why i have cut taxes for small business owners 17 times over the last three years. i believe deeply that the free market is the greatest force for economic progress in human history. my mother and grandparents to raise the value personal responsibility. i also share the belief of our first republican president, abraham lincoln. a belief that true government, we should do together what we cannot do as well for ourselves. that belief is the reason this country has been able to build a strong military to keep us safe, and public schools to educate our children. that belief is why we have been able to lay down roads and highways to facilitate travel and commerce. that belief is why we have been able to support the work of scientists and researchers whose discoveries have saved lives, unleashed technological revolutions, and led to countless new jobs in new industries. that belief is also why we hav

so dwight eisenhower recognizes that the world he's handing to his successor is very different than the world he grew up in. we have to think about these things because you are facing a different world than the founders world, challenges of the military complex but the rest of the world isn't matriarchal any more and much of it is not oppressive anymore, it will be defeated, fascism and communism and the nazism. and so now the rest of the world is becoming more american. we are becoming more like the rest of the world. we're much more multicultural than ever before. we have immigration not just from northern europe but from all of europe and from south america, asia and africa, the world is becoming more like us, this is the challenge of your generation. i'm speaking especially to the students here in the audience to try to rethink in a big way the doctrines you've inherited in the same way and here i close, these young people in their 30s, madison and hamilton. is rethought, received inherited doctrines of their world. they were taught you can't have a continental democracy. they said

. >> dwight eisenhower was a writer and painter. >> painter, yeah. >> is this not uncommon for artists to become soldiers? not surprised you find yourself in both? what's the first word about the book that comes to mind? >> curious. you know, it's being curious about my surroundings, landscape, about my place in time, and i think everybody puts off the fact that we're terminal beings. we get time distracted by life as it happens, and we don't think so much how we arrived here, and furthermore where we end, and this crossed my mind with how much i'm the child that i always was, that i can follow the idea of memory back and retrace myself, and i think in writing the book, the thing i got from it is going from my childhood, i was able to restore my parents, bring people back, and i thought i had lost them, and in some ways, i found much of me that i have taken for granted all this time, and, you know, i -- it if we go into memory deep enough, we find we have stored incredible amounts of our imprints, our ideas and formed our personality, and it's amazing to see how much of us was here and

dwight eisenhower. a lot of his political analysts thought he should take advantage of this new medium, tv. it's notable that his public approval rating never dropped below 50%. people have chalked it up to his being a war hero. i wonder if his reticence about not over exposing himself to the public is not part of his story. often when his advisors would try to persuade him to go on tv or make a high profile speech, eisenhower would say, quote, i keep telling you fellows i don't like to do this sort of thing. i can think of nothing more boring for the american public to sit in their living rooms looking at my face on their television screens. i don't think the people want to listen to a roosevelt or the partisan yipping of a trueman. another occasion he pushed back by saying, what is it that needs to be said? i'm not going to go out there just to listen to my tongue clatter. then finally on one occasion when he did yield he did say, all right, but i'm not going to talk more than 20 minutes. the author a

he tried to do it in 48 and didn't listen to them and then he did in 1952 and 56 was dwight eisenhowert was to republicans again brought hollywood republicans throughout the party into the radio age and the hub of the democrats. he met we invite you to join a conversation. we'll put phone numbers for production on the screen here. you can also tweet a look tv or you can send an e-mail, booktv@c-span.org. this discussion about the political impact of hollywood. on the left and right untypical discourse and policymaking. stephen ross teaches at the university and has done much of his academic work and the effects on the history of the film industry and effects on american society. you've given us names that are it is. could you do a series of biographical portrait of these folks and how they have been influenced by 80. were the people people on the left? >> i've taken five people on the left i on the right. they are not young activists, that erin of them tend most prominent activists. the people on the left i look at our charlie chaplin, edward g robinson, harry belafonte, james fonda an

on the, the life of president dwight eisenhower. the architect of the memorial honoring the nation's 34th president and from president eisenhower's granddaughter, who opposes it. then an archival film about eisenhower made by the u.s. army. >>> the international monetary fund meets this month for more talks on europe and other issues and the house financial services committee asked treasury secretary timothy geithner about that meeting and the stability of international financial system. republican committee members opposed contributions to the imf to help resolve the european debt crisis. this hearing is about 2 1/2 hours. >>> this hearing will come to order. the purpose of the hearing today is to receive the annual testimony of the secretary of treasury on the state of international -- the international financial system. the chair would note the very notable absence of our chairman today, chairman bacchus, who is undergoing a minor surgical procedure. he is expected to rejoin us tomorrow. he regrets his absence. pursuant to rule 3

i just want to read something from another relatively famous general, dwight eisenhower and said another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. as pe peer into society's future we must avoid the impulse only to live for today, pluntderring for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. we cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. we want democracy to survive for all generations being to, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow. a wonderful warning to all of us regarding trillion dollar deficits and you have sat in these chairs, and you know the challenges that we face. back in 1977 you were one of the first people to ever introduce a by annual budget bill. do you still support that concept? >> i always thought that it made sense to try to extend and because we were fighting a budget battle every year and frankly, we would have been better off establishing a two-year process in which we would say it would give us some planning for the future. it would

trillion dollar investment in rebuilding our infrastructure so if that's communist and president dwight eisenhower who invested a massive amounts of government money to build the interstate highway system is also a card carrying member of the communist party how could joe mccarthy of missed that when the progressive caucus budget also ends the bush tax cuts for the top two percent wealthiest americans and proposes new tax brackets for millionaires and billionaires having them pay a top tax rate of forty nine percent still well below what the super rich paid under the administrations of roosevelt truman eisenhower kennedy johnson nixon ford carter and even the beginning of reagan's administration are those guys communists not only that a big majority of american people support taxing the rich at a higher rate as a recent c.b.s. news new york times poll showed sixty five percent of americans are in favor of this proposal so are most americans communists congressman wants a progressive budget also creates a public option giving americans an alternative to the for profit private health insurance indus

tonight the life of president dwight eisenhower. you'll hear from the architect of the memorial honoring the nation's 34th president, and from eisenhower's granddaughter, who opposes the memorial. then an archival film about general eisenhower, made by the u.s. army. >>> we return now to the national journal forum on the federal budget. next a panel discussion on the budget and deficit rejection. former budget committee staff director steve del endorsed an approach that would provide immediate economic stimulus along with future deficit cuts. this is about 20 minutes. >> next we have our discussion with our panel of experts. joining this morning, we have steve bell, senior director of economic policy, the bipartisan policy center, laura peterson, senior policy analyst, taxpayers for common sense, and ethan pollack, senior policy analyst, the economic policy institute. our moderator for this morning's panel is jim tankersley, the economics correspondent for national journal. jim joined us from the tribune washington bureau where he c